Rippling sues Deel, Deel denies ‘all legal wrongdoing,’ and Slack is the main witness

It’s gloves off in one of the more tense rivalries in the world of startups. HR…

Google adds its voice model Chirp 3 to its Vertex AI platform

Most of the focus in generative AI has been on text-based interfaces used to generate text,…

Meta takes aim at ex-employee’s memoir ‘Careless People’

Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published…

Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers

In a world filled with “vibe coding,” Zach Yadegari, teen founder of Cal AI, stands in ironic,…

VC Aileen Lee highlights how the broader investor exodus is worsening woes for unicorn companies

In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about…

Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose.…

Bench is charging people for services they already paid for, some customers say

After Employer.com acquired bankrupt accounting startup Bench in a fire-sale late last year, CEO Jesse Tinsley…

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including…

US lawmakers urge UK spy court to hold Apple ‘backdoor’ secret hearing in public

A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers are urging the head of the U.K.’s surveillance court to…

Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’

In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson…